On 20/04/2015 22:34, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:10:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> On 20/04/2015 19:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> At the implementation level, there's one big issue you seem to have >>> missed: DMA to invalid memory addresses causes a crash in memory core. >>> I'm not sure whether it makes sense to recover from virtio core bugs >>> when we can't recover from device bugs. >> >> What do you mean exactly? DMA to invalid memory addresses causes >> address_space_map to return a "short read". >> >> Paolo > > I mean, first of all, a bunch of virtio_XXX_phys calls. > These eventually call qemu_get_ram_ptr, which internally calls > qemu_get_ram_block and ramblock_ptr. > Both abort on errors. address_space_translate and memory_access_size should ensure they don't. Paolo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
